Quotes about Reward

Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Man - Reward

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization.

Certainty - Feelings - Humane - Making - Prediction - Proof - Reward - Value

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Calvin Coolidge

Former President of the United States

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.

Ability - Boundaries - Conditioning - Reward - Wants

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Aeschylus

Tragedian

The reward of pain is experience.

Pain - Reward

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

Drinking - Reward - Strength

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John Adams

Former President of the United States

No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that a deep sense and a due acknowledgment of the governing providence of a Supreme Being and the accountableness of men to Him as the searcher of hearts and righteous distributor of rewards and punishments are conducive equally to the happiness and rectitude of individuals and to the well being of communities.

Government - Man - Reward - Righteousness - Teaching - Wellness

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John Dewey

Philosopher, Psychologist, Educational Reformer

The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.

Giving - Marking - Principle - Reward

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John Steinbeck

Writer, War Correspondent

Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

Certainty - Destroying - Kindness - Man - Reward - Teaching - Wellness

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Kurt Vonnegut

Writer

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

Creativity - Growing - Reward - Show

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Ramakrishna

Businessman, Leader,

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Attachment - End - Expectation - Meaning - Punishment - Reward - World

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Milton Friedman

Athlete, Economist, Economist

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Communism - Excuse - People - Politics - President - Reward - Thinking - Virtue

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

Compromise - Joy - Reward - Sin - World

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Calvin Coolidge

Former President of the United States

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.

Reward - Wants

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.

Actions - Certainty - Heavens - Meaning - Reward - Trial - Worrying

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Laozi

Philosopher

Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

Reward - Tasks

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Ambrose Bierce

Writer, Journalist, Soldier

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Care - Honor - Reward

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Oprah Winfrey

Media Executive, Actress, Talk Show Host, TV Producer

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.

Pursuit - Reward

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Brian Tracy

Author, Public Speaker

Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if you want to double your income, you simply have to double the quality and quantity of what you do for that income. Or you have to change activities and occupations so that what you are doing is worth twice as much.

Activity - Goals - Livelihood - Occupation - Quality - Reward - Wants - Work - World

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Solomon

King of Israel

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

Fall - Friendship - Help - Labor - Reward

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

Certainty - Consumer - Prevent - Product - Reward

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